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Rachel's Science
general science chapter 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| James Maxwell Clerk | founder of modern physics |
| Thales | one of first scientists |
| Galileo | heliocentric system, forced to recant belief in it |
| Ptolemy | geocentric system |
| Einstein | had 2 theories of relativity and quantum mechanics |
| Lavoisier | Law of Mass Conservation |
| Darwin | destroyed idea of immutable species |
| Democritus | ancient Greek scientist believed in atoms |
| Grosseteste | first modern scientist |
| Copernicus | heliocentric system |
| Aristotle | idea of spontaneous generation |
| Newton | single greatest scientist of all time |
| Mendel | determined how traits are passed on during reproduction |
| Joule | demonstrated first law of thermodynamics |
| Dalton | first detailed atomic theory and founder of modern atomic theory |
| Bohr | best known for model of atom, named after him, revealed many of the atom's mysteries |